We begin by congratulating Professors Yu and Meng on an outstanding paper, and thanking Professor Levine for giving us the opportunity to discuss their work. Our discussion focuses mainly on the GIS & ASIS algorithms. Section 1 concerns the relationship between the GIS and sandwich algorithms. In Section 2, we consider a family of toy GIS algorithms based on the bivariate normal distribution, a...

We would like to start this response to the comment of Cotrim da Cunha et al. (2007, 2009) by thanking them for the time and effort they spent analyzing our published manuscript (Tovar-Sanchez et al. 2006). Although Cotrim da Cunha et al. recognized the validity of our new comprehensive data set that includes the first simultaneous measurements of metals in aerosols and in field populations of ...

I would like to start by thanking the organizers of this conference for this privilege of presenting my work at this important gathering. I am happy to be back in Paris as it brings back wonderful memories of my sabbatical leave that I spent here, the friends I made and my discovery of the wealth of research going on in Europe. As for my presentation, I do hope that the facts will speak for the...

Smart city infrastructures enable the routine interleaving and integration of diverse activities, including new ways to play, be playful, participate. We discuss three examples: (1) citizen-based water quality monitoring, which combines outdoor exercise social interaction with safeguarding public supplies, (2) a digital scavenger hunt, experiences community arts festival shared reflections abou...